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Pokemon has always been weird, gen 1 examples: Meowth cos he speaks English rather than speaking like other Pokemon, ditto for being the great Pokemon **** who can breed with anything except legends and birds which growl ftw! Anyway I've been playing since RBY, the originals not the remakes, and if anything Pokemon is getting more interesting with more detailed designs and new type combos. I think he's just outgrown the franchise or has given in to those who go on about Pokemon not being cool anymore.

I agree with your cousin tbh. I think that black and white killed pokemon and they really need to stop now before the legacy is ruined. Sinnoh made things slightly complicated but still understandable and reasonable but Unova just took the meaning of complicated to a whole new level.

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I agree with your cousin tbh. I think that black and white killed pokemon and they really need to stop now before the legacy is ruined. Sinnoh made things slightly complicated but still understandable and reasonable but Unova just took the meaning of complicated to a whole new level.

How did sinnoh and unova make things complicated? The game mechanics has basically been the same since Hoenn.

I agree with your cousin tbh. I think that black and white killed pokemon and they really need to stop now before the legacy is ruined. Sinnoh made things slightly complicated but still understandable and reasonable but Unova just took the meaning of complicated to a whole new level.

Well Black and White didn't "kill" Pokemon as it's still going, and lots of people are still interested. And they don't need to stop, you can however stop.

I don't see how Generation 4 or 5 made things any more complicated then they were before, Generation 4 changed the battling system to make it less complicated and make more sense, Generation 5 didn't really do anything other then add upgrades to things and new features that aren't complicated.

You still do the same thing as always, catch, train, battle, deal with villains, become champion. It's pretty straight forward still. Perhaps things are complicated for you for whatever reason, but I haven't seen anyone have any real difficult understanding the basic of the games when they explain it to you at the start all the time.

I agree with your cousin tbh. I think that black and white killed pokemon and they really need to stop now before the legacy is ruined. Sinnoh made things slightly complicated but still understandable and reasonable but Unova just took the meaning of complicated to a whole new level.

Well I don't think they should stop making the games, but maybe the anime since every episode is usually the same just with a different pokemon.

New people come into the show all the time, so it's not like they'll know plots get reused, which happens in a lot of shows(At less with Pokemon it's a long running show where it gets to the point you have to reuse plots, where as other shows that aren't even 100 episodes end up reusing plots). Also, the episodes aren't all that same, there is usually a different approach to the plot making it different enough.

They shouldn't stop with making anything Pokemon related, it's all still going strong enough, and people can stop whenever they want if they don't like where it's at anymore.

There are heavily varying opinions; I'm 16 and I've known about it since I was 3; I think that it's gotten pretty out-of-hand and somewhat bothersome with the creation of Generation V's new Pokémon, but they should go on; they should just spend a few years without making stupid new ideas and instead opt to make spiritual successors and perhaps more remakes to and of the older games; perhaps they should make some in which the final Pokédex of the region has fewer than 649 or even 493 Pokémon.

I'm always amazed by how so many people think the second best-selling video game series of all time should be cancelled or whatever strictly due to their own personal petty complaints.

I'm a veteran player, been a fan of Pokemon ever since I saw the first episode of the anime when it originally aired, and yet I love all the new innovations and changes that has happened to the Pokemon series over the years. I can't imagine the franchise without them. Why shouldn't the series "evolve" over time and introduce brand new concepts and ideas with each new game? It keeps the series fresh. If your cousin doesn't like certain new concepts or ideas well then tell him tough luck, but I can't imagine why Nintendo, Game Freak, etc. should care. Pokemon isn't gonna stay in the 90s/2000s or whatever forever. It's gonna change with time, just like everything else on this Earth does.

There are heavily varying opinions; I'm 16 and I've known about it since I was 3; I think that it's gotten pretty out-of-hand and somewhat bothersome with the creation of Generation V's new Pokémon, but they should go on; they should just spend a few years without making stupid new ideas and instead opt to make spiritual successors and perhaps more remakes to and of the older games; perhaps they should make some in which the final Pokédex of the region has fewer than 649 or even 493 Pokémon.

How do you think it's gotten out of hand and bothersome? What ideas are stupid exactly? Why should the Pokedex have less amount of Pokemon, they shouldn't exclude Pokemon, as it is, we have a Regional Dex which aside for the first two generations, always have less Pokemon then there are, then we have the National Dex for all the other Pokemon, because this is Pokemon after all, you can't just remove Pokemon for no reason at all, personally, I think that would be pretty stupid, there is no reason for them to do it.

My cousin got me into Pokemon a year ago and he has been playing since he was 5 years old. Now he's 16 and I'm 13 and he doesn't want to play it anymore because he says it'd ruining his childhood memories since they're "fusing" Pokemon together or whatever is going on with Black Kyurem and White Kyurem. He says he wishes they would just cancel Pokemon so they don't ruin the legacy or whatever. I disagreed but he said that any veteran player like him would agree that they should, so i want to know if what he says is true...anybody?

Say this to your cousin.

"Hey cousin thank for getting me into pokémon but I think you are a dumb moron who needs to take off his nostalgia goggle.

Pokémon has and always will be weird."

Originally Posted by Snivy Link

he is now into yu-gi-oh and bakugan, just saying

Yeah he's dumb moron.

Tell him that he's a hypocrite.

Originally Posted by Volcanic Typhlosion

Getting weird?

It gets even weirder considering that Jynx use to be black.

Originally Posted by ForeverFlame

Pokemon is slowly getting less weird. It's turning into more of a conventional RPG as the story gets more detailed and the mechanics get more involved.

No it's still just as weird as it was in gen 1.

Originally Posted by DMerle

Obviously they have to take it in new directions, I'm one of those people where even if they totally ruined it with 6th gen It still wouldn't bother me because I can just keep playing the older games, I can understand why some people might not like it though.

You mean you are one of those people who stupidly believed that they have ruined pokémon?

Take off the nostalgia goggle and you will see that they done no such thing.

Originally Posted by iliekmudkipz

as Pokemon didn't have genders until the second gen.

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But I knew what you meant.

Originally Posted by *IZ*

Well I don't think they should stop making the games, but maybe the anime since every episode is usually the same just with a different pokemon.

The animé exist to promote the game, it isn't going anywhere especially considering that it's popular.

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Originally Posted by Clamps

And here we have GAMEFREAK EMPLOYEE Blaze Boy confirming once again that Red/Blue/Yellow/Green/ and Gold/Silver/Crystal will not be on the 3DS virtual console E-shop!

Yeah, I've been playing since Red/Blue were first released and I'll still play Pokemon - granted it took me a while to get used to Gen 5, I still enjoy the games the same as I did when I was 6, 7, 8 now almost 20. They need to make things a little different sometimes! I heard no one complaining when Goten and Trunks fused together in DBZ! Lol!

I agree with your cousin tbh. I think that black and white killed pokemon and they really need to stop now before the legacy is ruined. Sinnoh made things slightly complicated but still understandable and reasonable but Unova just took the meaning of complicated to a whole new level.

Keep this in mind: These games are made so eight year olds can easily play and enjoy them.

In no way is it "complicated".

Originally Posted by *IZ*

Well I don't think they should stop making the games, but maybe the anime since every episode is usually the same just with a different pokemon.

Okay, so? It has been that way since the very beginning.

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The way I see it, Pokemon started out as weird, remained weird through generation 5, and when they finally decide to close up shop, it will end weird.

It will never happen, why would a company that brings in millions of dollars form a franchise close up shop when all they have to do is revamp an older gen game with newer graphics and come up with new pokemon/story line for a new gen.

Pokemon has no doubt gotten strange at certain points, but it is getting better.

I'm a major Gen I fan as well (been playing the games since '98). I've never liked Gen 3 or 4 at all (with the exception of the remakes, this is where I believe Pokemon went a bit "too" crazy.) It's getting slowly better with Gen 5, and these games remind me more of the originals. Decent starters, a brand new, fresh storyline. Everything about this generation is great! Although I must agree about the whole "forme" thing. Never really understood the reasoning behind it. But Kyurem looks good in my opinion. Hopefully Pokemon continues to get better in the future.

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